After much thought, Cao Yu still felt that this matter was difficult to handle. He hesitated for a moment, and first planned to simply report it to Gao Situ. He would only provide suggestions and let Gao Situ make his own decision. After thinking about it later, I felt that such words really seemed a bit ineffective. After a little hesitation, Cao Yu sent someone to invite Gao Yimin over.
Gao Yimin was the "staff member" sent to him by Gao Pingshi. According to Cao Yun's own understanding, it probably wouldn't be a big problem to be regarded as a supervisor. He was naturally a close confidant of Gao Situ, and it didn't matter if he talked about something important.
So he showed these three letters and two pieces of evidence to Gao Yimin. After Gao Yimin finished reading, his face became a little gloomy, and he said solemnly: "I said that Yehexi City was lost in a strange way, and there is indeed something wrong with it. It is true that Burihatu was stirring up trouble in the northwest at that time, but he didn't bring anything with him at the time. How did these people get the gunpowder from the northwest to Mobei and then back to Chahar? It turns out that he didn't bring the gunpowder back from the northwest, but he obtained it on the spot in Liaodong... What a good trick."
After all, Gao Yimin is a "military affairs staff member." When he saw the news, the first thing he thought of was military-related matters. He flicked the letter and said: "Burihatu originally planned to buy another five thousand catties. He probably planned to repeat his old trick and blow up Yehedong City. Who knows this 'master' Refuse to..."
When Cao Yu heard him say the word "refuse", his tone was different, and he raised his eyebrows slightly, meaning: "What's the inside story?"
Gao Yimin saw what he meant and smiled: "That gentleman is very smart. He knew that even if Burihatu could bring back some gunpowder from the northwest, the amount would not be too large. He provided three thousand kilograms and asked Burihatu to bring back some gunpowder. Rihatu bombed the West City, and this matter could still be covered up. But if Burihatu had more gunpowder in his hand, the East City would also be blown up... Mr. Rong, tell me, can the court still do this? Are you suspicious?"
Cao Yan understood immediately and nodded: "Yes, it makes sense, and it also shows that the master knows the power of gunpowder well and can accurately judge how much gunpowder can do what."
"General Rong is wise." Gao Yimin praised, and then said: "At the same time, it may also show that this master has a very clear judgment on the situation in Liaodong, and even in his heart, the above situations are within his control. Within. In other words, he thinks it doesn’t matter if he loses a Yehexi city..."
Cao Yu was startled and asked doubtfully: "You mean...he has calculated all these. Even if he loses the west city, the situation is still controllable in his opinion. Unless Ye He also loses the east city, otherwise Can he sit firmly on the Diaoyutai?"
Gao Yimin was silent for a few breaths and hummed softly: "I'm afraid he won't panic even if Dongcheng is lost, but he may think that after losing Dongcheng, things will become complicated at the court level. What will happen in the end?" , he had no confidence in his heart, so he deliberately controlled the situation and stopped the Mongols outside the east city."
Having said that, there is no doubt about Gao Yimin's judgment on the identity of this "master".
Although Li Song was the governor of Liaodong, he certainly did not dare to indulge the Mongols in this way, because he was the first person responsible for the border affairs in Liaodong. If the border affairs were to become uncontrollable, the imperial court would definitely be the first to take action on him. At the same time, he himself is just a civil servant with no foundation or direct lineage in the Liaodong military circles. In the past, he relied on Li Chengliang to gradually accumulate merit in Ningqian, so that today he is Futai, and he cannot be that powerful. The confidence can easily save the situation.
Apart from Li Chengliang, there are other people who can watch Ye He lose Xicheng without being moved. He even knows that Burihatu is definitely not buying gunpowder for the purpose of setting off fireworks, but still dares to sell thousands of kilograms of gunpowder like this. who?
Only Li Chengliang has such strength and confidence, because from his standpoint, it doesn't matter even if Cao Yu's entire army is wiped out during this expedition.
It's amazing that he just needs to go out in person. At this time, the Li family's Liaodong cavalry has not yet clearly gone downhill. He still has more than 100,000 Liaodong Guard troops in his hands. What's the point of recapturing a mere Ye He?
Li Chengliang himself was from Tieling in northern Liaoning. He knew the geographical environment of Ye He very well. It was a place that was very suitable for him and not suitable for the Mongols to fight.
If there were such things as satellite images in this era, they would know better that the second city of Yehe is actually a shape with the west city located in the southwest and the east city located in the northeast. And the two cities and the connecting road running from southwest to northeast are actually one Very long and narrow canyon.
The northwest and southeast of the canyon are covered with forested mountains. The southeast does not depend on Mongolia, so let’s ignore it for now.
The mountains in the northwest of the canyon are about thirty miles wide. Thirty miles northwest from Yehexi City, you have crossed the mountains and entered the plains of Siping City, Jilin Province.
what does that mean? This means that the suitable combat area for the Mongols is only to the west of this mountain range, which is near the urban area of Siping City in later generations, and then east into the core area of Yehe. No matter the West City or the East City, they are actually not suitable for cavalry combat.
Ye Heben entered Manchuria from Mongolia. The reason why he chose to build the city in the east and west cities was because of the terrain factors. In later generations, the area near Siping was also Ye He's territory, but they built the east and west cities east of the mountains. The reason was to defend against Mongolia.
The reason why its territory includes a large area of plain grassland to the west of the mountains is because Yehe is famous in Manchuria for his cavalry, and they need grassland for pasture.
This makes it very clear that Li Chengliang had both elite cavalry and a large number of infantry. If there is a situation where Cao Yun is defeated and he has to personally take action, then the infantry can slowly go to Yehe to recover the siege, while the cavalry can cut off the Mongols' retreat.
At this time, the Mongols will have to make a choice - in fact, according to the Mongolian habits, there is no choice at all. They must evacuate the east and west cities and return to the plains.
In this way, if Li Chengliang used Liaodong cavalry to ambush on the plains east of the mountains in advance, they would launch a fierce attack as soon as the Mongols came out of the mountains and forests. In this way, the Mongols would definitely suffer heavy losses, and Li Chengliang could make a great fortune.
Of course, his style of play is different from Cao Yan's style of play. The effect may be better than Cao Yan's this time, but you must know that Gao Pragmatic only gave Cao Yan 20,000 people to do this. The assumption here is after Cao Yun's defeat.
If Cao Yun had been defeated, Li Chengliang would certainly have enough reasons to mobilize more troops, so his fighting style would be different. And at that time, even being highly pragmatic would not be able to reasonably limit the deployment of troops. As for whether this will delay the Ming army's preparations for Chahar again... Li Chengliang will definitely not care anyway.
The cunning rabbit dies and the lackey is cooked. Gao Jingshi and Zhu Yijun were bent on destroying Chahar, but Li Chengliang would not think so. If Chahar was destroyed, he and Li Chengliang might not have to worry too much because he was older, but the generals were popular among the top brass of the Ming army. In his own life, Enough credit, what about the sons? Where are the grandchildren?
At present, the imperial court still needs to use them to do things, and the status of their generals is far inferior to that of civilian officials. If in the future the imperial court has no rivals left, how can military generals still be human beings in front of civilian officials? I'm afraid he has to turn into a talking dog, which is not what Li Chengliang likes to see.
So no matter which angle you look at it, the clues about "who is this master" clearly point to Li Chengliang. If it weren't for Li Chengliang knowing how powerful Gao Pingshi was in the court, he might have sold the five thousand kilograms of gunpowder proposed by Burihatu for the second time without hesitation.
Cao Yun and Gao Yimin analyzed the situation and understood it. Cao Zongrong was so angry that he slapped the table: "You respect yourself and allow the enemy to plunder the border, but Li Yincheng has fallen to this!"
The intention of Cao Yu's scolding was not very pure, but he himself didn't know that the "degenerate" curse was actually correct. Li Chengliang had really degenerated now, and was no longer the Liaodong he had been in the past ten years. God of War, he has become corrupted.
If there hadn't been more pragmatism in the world, Li Chengliang would have suffered consecutive defeats in three years starting from next year, which is the 16th year of Wanli, and ending in the 19th year of Wanli. He had almost no victories, so that he was impeached for a long time and finally dismissed from office. Recall the capital and keep him in peace with Ning Yuanbo.
Even though there is now more Gao pragmatism, because Li Chengliang's subordinates are arrogant about military achievements and do not recognize Gao pragmatism, they have also hesitated to advance in terms of their military system, tactical thinking, etc. Only the Jinghua military-industrial system was of some use to him. At least he had purchased a lot of new guns and artillery. Therefore, the degree of degradation of the Li family army was much lighter than in history.
In the original history, after Li Chengliang was dismissed as Commander of the Liao Dynasty for the first time, the post of Commander-in-Chief of Liaodong changed eight people in ten years. As long as he was not Li Chengliang's son or close confidant, nothing could be done at all, leading to military affairs being depleted. Even when Li Rusong was the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, because he was at war with Japan and Korea at that time, he inevitably failed to take into account the town's defense.
However, when Li Rusong was in office and alive (he accidentally died in a "Qingqi raid" against Mongolia shortly after returning from North Korea), the morale of the Li family army was boosted a lot and somewhat recovered. Unfortunately, with Li Rusong's death Death, all this anger was quickly exhausted.
From this perspective, Li Chengliang's current "sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai" is actually because he is not aware of the depravity of himself and the Li family's cavalry. The only good news is probably that Cao Yu was not defeated, and even won quite simply - at least from the perspective of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming army must have won the battle of Yehe River. After all, the Mongols were repelled head-on, so why did they give up? The city of Yehexi has been obtained.
Gao Yimin looked at Cao Yun, who had an angry look on his face, and estimated in his mind how much of his anger was true and how much of it was fake. But Gao Yimin was just thinking about it, and it was not difficult to guess Cao Yun's thoughts.
Li Chengliang, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, has been working since the Longqing period. Counting this year, it has been eighteen years. This is really too long, especially since he, the commander-in-chief, has not moved for eighteen years, which is extremely rare.
Other general soldiers, such as the three towns of Xuanda in Shanxi, and perhaps the towns of Yansui, the positions of these general soldiers are rotated every three to five, so as to avoid the commander-in-chief being given to one person for a long time and becoming too big.
But Li Chengliang's side is very magical. There has been no change of personnel in nearly twenty years. If Gao Pragmatic hadn't come over to stir things up, Liaodong's military affairs would have been a stagnant water long ago.
Under this situation, it is completely normal for Cao Yu to have thoughts about the position of Liaodong Commander-in-Chief. Even if he does not expect Li Chengliang to fall suddenly, he at least hopes that Li Chengliang will be transferred from outside and give up the position of Liao Commander to Cao. Try something new.
Gao Yimin didn't intend to reveal his thoughts, so he changed the topic and asked: "General Manager, what do you think I can do to help you with this matter? If so, please tell me clearly."
Seeing that Gao Yimin didn't pick up on him and scolded Li Chengliang, Cao Yu knew in his heart that Gao Yimin definitely didn't dare to say anything before Gao Situ expressed his stance, so he couldn't be offended, so he had to change the topic back and said: "Tong Weixun, this is If the person is in Uncle Ning Yuan's house, it will not be easy for me to investigate him, but if I want to directly impeach Uncle Ning Yuan, I am not a public official and have no authority to report anything, so this evidence is indispensable..."
Gao Yimin nodded and said, "Jinghua can take care of this for me."
As expected, Cao Yan breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Then how can I make him admit that Uncle Ning Yuan is the person behind his scenes?"
Cao Yun knew that Jinghua had its own intelligence system. He also knew that this system belonged to the Ministry of Internal Affairs within Jinghua, and was called "Black Top". It was very powerful and might have placed eyes and ears all over Liaodong.
The bad relationship between Gao Pangshi and Li Chengliang did not last for a day or two. It is reasonable for Heiding to have someone in Li Chengliang's house, so since Gao Yimin can agree to let Heiding "do one or two things for him", find out this It must not be difficult to identify Tong Weixun, but what is difficult is to get this Tong Weixun to plead guilty early.
But now Cao Yan doesn't care. Heiding has Heiding's methods, as long as Cao Yan doesn't have to worry about this matter.
"Okay, thank you very much, Brother Gao!" Cao Yan immediately thanked him, and then asked: "Then I will put this matter aside for now and wait until Heiding finds out?"
Gao Yimin expressed his approval, and Cao Yan added: "What should Nurhaci do? His younger brother Shuerhaqi is in our army. If the evidence of the crime is conclusive, it is okay to kill Jiqi."
Gao Yimin quickly stopped him and said: "Shurhaqi cannot be killed, but the commander can bring him in for questioning. The evidence of this matter is conclusive, and Shuerhaqi himself is not good at speaking. He will definitely be speechless by the commander's questions." , and then the commander can scold him, and it would be best to make him feel dissatisfied with Nurhachi..."
Speaking to this extent, Cao Yan certainly understood what Gao Yimin meant - this was very consistent with the Ming Dynasty's attitude towards the Jurchens in Liaodong: pull the second child, beat the boss, and never let anyone stand out.
Although the second child is not as good as the eldest brother, he is usually not too far behind. With the support of Da Ming, it is even more different. It is possible that he can compete with the eldest brother.
Cao Yu understood the idea and said with a smile: "Okay, Brother Gao, I will call him over in a while and give him a scolding."
Gao Yimin also smiled and said: "Zongrong might as well tell him that Nurhaci did such a thing, but still sent him to our army. I'm afraid he wants to kill people with a borrowed knife."
Cao Yan was stunned for a moment, then laughed: "Best brother, I will say so later."
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